Our Graduates Get Top Residencies

Of course, you want a medical school that will prepare you well for clinical training in your chosen specialty. Our graduates routinely match at prestigious residency training programs across the country, and long-term studies indicate that 95 percent of them are rated as equal to or better than their peers during residency training. Typically, 40 to 45 percent of graduating WSU medical students choose residencies in primary care fields, while the majority choose other specialties ranging from anesthesiology to urology. After graduation just over half the members of each class relocate to another state to begin residency training.

During your medical career at Wright State, faculty are available as mentors, advocates and advisors. Many of our clinical faculty members have volunteered to serve as advisors in helping you make a specialty choice — your career in medicine. They can provide invaluable information about their medical specialties, including application procedures, requirements, certification and training programs.

2012 was another great year

Boonshoft School of Medicine had 95 graduating medical students assigned to residency programs through the National Resident Matching Program on March 16, 2012. Wright State students matched in outstanding programs in Dayton, throughout Ohio, and across the country, including Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Stanford University and the University of Chicago Medical Center.

The number of Wright State graduates choosing to enter primary care jumped substantially this year, with those choosing family medicine up 82 percent over 2011. This is significant because the number of U.S. medical students entering family practice training programs has dropped more than 50 percent over the last decade, while the need for family practice physicians has continued to grow

More than one third of the Wright State graduates will remain in Ohio during residency, and more than half (52.6 percent) will enter a primary care field (Family Medicine: 22.1 percent; Internal Medicine: 17.9 percent; Internal Medicine-Pediatrics: 2.1 percent; and Pediatrics: 10.5 percent). The rest matched in 13 other specialties: Anesthesiology: 5.3 percent; Dermatology: 1.1 percent; Emergency Medicine: 14.7 percent; Neurology: 1.1 percent; Obstetrics and Gynecology: 4.2 percent; Orthopaedic Surgery: 1.1 percent; Otolaryngology: 2.1 percent; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: 1.1 percent; Plastic Surgery (Integrated): 1.1 percent; Psychiatry: 6.3 percent; Radiation Oncology: 1.1 percent; Surgery-General: 7.4 percent; and Urology: 1.1%.

Learn more…

• Match Results by Name: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |2009 | 2008
• Match Results by Specialty: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008
• Full video of Match Day 2012 at Wright State (Quicktime)
• Residency placements by specialty for the past five years (2008-2012)
• Map showing where our graduates matched in the past five years
• Residency & fellowship programs sponsored by Wright State
• Boonshoft Careers in Medicine
• Careers in Medicine from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS)
• National Resident Matching Program (NMRP)